1. Lieutenant Colonel Charles Donovan was an Irish physician, parasitologist and entomologist who served as a medical officer in the Indian Medical Service.
27 Facts About Charles Donovan
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Charles Donovan is best remembered for his discoveries of Leishmania donovani as the causative agent of visceral leishmaniasis, and Klebsiella granulomatis as that of donovanosis.
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Charles Donovan graduated in medicine from Queen's College, Cork and joined the Indian Medical Service.
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Charles Donovan participated in British expeditions to Mandalay in Burma, Royapuram and Mangalore in India, Afghanistan, and finally Madras, where he spent the rest of his service.
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Charles Donovan was professor at Madras Medical College from 1898 until his retirement in 1919.
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Charles Donovan was the eldest of nine children of Irish parents Grace Jennings and Charles Donovan, who were originally from County Cork.
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Charles Donovan was born in Calcutta in Bengal, India.
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Charles Donovan attended elementary schools in Dehra Dun and Mussoorie.
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Charles Donovan continued his education and entered Queen's College, Cork, enrolling on the arts programme, which would have included subjects relevant to the study of medicine.
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Charles Donovan transferred to Trinity College Dublin, where he completed his BA degree, before returning to Queen's College, Cork in 1885 to begin his medical degree.
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Charles Donovan received an MB BCh BAO degree in 1889 from the Royal University of Ireland.
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Charles Donovan was sent to the Royal Army Medical Corps at Netley for probationary training.
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Charles Donovan set sail for India on 30 September 1891 and reached Bombay on 26 October.
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Charles Donovan initially worked in the Surgeon General Office before eventually being posted to Madras Medical College and Government General Hospital, both of which were teaching institutions.
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Charles Donovan continued to teach at the medical college until his retirement in 1919 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.
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Charles Donovan identified the Leishman bodies as the causative agents of kala-azar.
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Charles Donovan wrote a commentary of his discovery in relation to that of Leishman in the same journal, which appeared on 11 July 1903.
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Charles Donovan sent some of his slides to Ronald Ross, who was in Liverpool, and to Alphonse Laveran at the Pasteur Institute in Paris.
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Charles Donovan gave the popular name "Leishman-Donovan bodies", and subsequently the valid binomial Leishmania donovani, thereby equally crediting the two rivals.
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In 1905 Charles Donovan prepared tissue smears from the ulcerative mouth of a ward boy in Madras hospital.
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Charles Donovan took an interest in the study of butterflies and birds.
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Charles Donovan made personal investigations on malaria in monkeys in the Nilgiris.
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Charles Donovan married Mary Wren Donovan, his cousin and daughter of Dr Henry Donovan, at Bombay in 1891.
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Charles Donovan was a dedicated doctor and inspirational leader that even the sweepers at Madras hospital were able to prepare excellent microscopic slides.
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Charles Donovan created his self-funded Madras Medical College Athletic Association and invited all the staff to join.
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Charles Donovan's wife died in 1940, and he lived with his two daughters; while his son studied engineering at Cambridge University.
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Charles Donovan died in 1951 in Moor Cottage Hospital in Bourton.